You know, daffodils are also somewhat toxic to other flowers. If you include them
in a bouquet to bring in, they will make the other flowers wilt. I heard this I
have never tried!
susan
Tony and Moira Ryan wrote:
Setzler wrote:
> I didn't think anything ate daffodil buds, bulbs leaves or anything. They are
> poisonous to most mammals, I guess the pheasants are immune to the poison.
susan
In Kenya (which is right on the Equator) daffodils are rare and only
grown successsfully at the higher altitudes. There was the story going
round one time of a keen gardener who brought some precious bulbs on a
foray to Nairobi, but when she wanted to plant them (after a meal which
had upset all their stomachs) she questioned the cook and sure enough
her expensive imported bulbs had ended up in the stew.
He just though they were rather odd onions alas!
Moira
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Are you sure you couldn't write a part biographical,
part gardening, part philosophy, part whatever else
crosses your mind memoir (include your Mum and the
bats!)? You could just let it ramble all over the
place - don't waste time organizing, just start
writing, when you have a moment?
Nancy
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Moira,
Are you sure you couldn't write a part biographical,
part gardening, part philosophy, part whatever else
crosses your mind memoir (include your Mum and the
bats!)? You could just let it ramble all over the
place - don't waste time organizing, just start
writing, when you have a moment?
Nancy
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http://mywebpages.comcast.net/cherie1/Garden/TonyandMoira/index.htm
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Nancy Sutton wrote:
Hi Nancy
I would love to oblige you, but I really find it all I can manage these
days is to write the odd bit here and there.
About twelve years ago I still had the energy and concetration the write
as small handbook on Organic Gardening (now out of print - how ephemeral
these things are!)
Even this I found took disciplined concentration of around five hours a
day for quite a long time and I simply don't feel I want to commit so
much time to the computer any more.
What I would love to do is to find more time for actual hands-on
gardening. I don't know where much of the time goes, but there seem to
be so many outside demands on it like meetings and church functions that
I am lucky if I get two half days a week. Many weeks it amounts to no
more than a couple of hours and leaves me very exasperated. The only way
apparently one can manage to become really immersed in one's garden is
to go and live far so from anywhere as to escape all social
interactions!!!
Moira
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I have just finished Elizabeth Jane Howard's autobiography (she is 80 this year). Her real regret about getting old is that arthritis has more or less made it impossible to walk and GARDEN. She is one who began to love gardening at about the age of 50 (flowers), is organic, wildflower gardens, has planted 1000 trees on her ground, etc.
Carol
> Carol
> Well _I_ certainly hope to be still gardening at eighty and beyond (I
> shall be 77 later this year).
I should certainly hope you will - my great aunt gardened into her 102nd
year althouh she unfortunately had developed Alzheimers and its advance
meant she could no longer garden for the last year of her life and a friend
has just been stopped gardening for the time being in her 104th year by a
fall and a broken shoulder. We naturally assumed this would be the end but
she says she expects to be up and around in the garden again soon.
kathryn
Carol Jensen wrote:
Carol
Well _I_ certainly hope to be still gardening at eighty and beyond (I
shall be 77 later this year). I have friend here in Wainui who regularly
tended her garden herself until she was 90 and now even two years later
still goes weeding in good weather. I only retired from my professional
job when I was 71 thinking I would be able to devote all the saved time
to my home garden!?!. My main trouble is resisting the demads on my
time posed by my church community which so often take me away from my
garden in the best weather alas!
Tony (now in his 80th year) still mows all our lawns (the main one on a
fair slope) and also works our shredder. In addition he picks most of
the fruit which is too high for me to reach comfortably and takes his
share in its preserving.
Besides all this he does all the baking (cakes and bread) and makes
dinner turn about with me.
And he seems to thrive on it. He still has a great upright figure, walks
me off my feet and has a most lovely-looking skin (Lucky fellow!)
Moira
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I had two very good friends much older than I. The wife had some whatchamacallits, where she then couldn't walk and not talk too well, but she continued to teach Chinese. In her late seventies. He in his eighties took care of her. This went on until he was 96 and fell, poor guy and broke his hip. Off to a home, since she couldn't take care of him, poor woman! They both died shortly after they arrived at the home. She was about 90 and still teaching Chinese when he fell!!! He was still making dinner and all the other things a housewife does. They had an apartment, no garden.
Carol
P.S. They were happy!
Except that it was Moira! I just turned 66. Carol
Setzler wrote:
> You know, daffodils are also somewhat toxic to other flowers. If you include them
> in a bouquet to bring in, they will make the other flowers wilt. I heard this I
> have never tried!
susan
Just happenerd on this when clearing up my file,which I think never got
answered.
Yes, in my experience daffodils do have an unfortunte effect in mixed
bouquets and are best on their own or (as I have sometimes done in the
past) combined with sprays of pussy willow with their lovely furry
silvery catkins, which seem to be able to withstand the bad vibes of the
daffodils quite successfully.
Moira
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